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  <h1>External Tools</h1>
  <p>Up to this point in the tutorial, we've discussed Ant as if it were the only type of external tool available for
  use in Eclipse. The fact is that Eclipse's external tools framework handles two broad classes of external tools:</p>
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    <li>Ant: <a href="qs-82_create.htm">buildfiles</a> and <a href="qs-93_project_builder.htm">project
    builders</a></li>
    <li>Non-Ant: <a href="qs-97_standalone_ets.htm">stand alone tools</a> and <a href="qs-96_non_ant_pjs.htm">non-Ant
    project builders</a></li>
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  <p>In this section, we look at ways to set up and use non-Ant external tools.</p>
  <h3 class="related">Related Tasks</h3><a href="qs-82_create.htm">Creating Ant buildfiles</a><br>
  <a href="qs-83_edit.htm">Editing Ant buildfiles</a><br>
  <a href="qs-85_ant_configs.htm">Saving &amp; Reusing Ant options</a><br>
  <a href="qs-84_run_ant.htm">Running Ant buildfiles</a><br>
  <a href="qs-93_project_builder.htm">Creating a project builder Ant buildfile</a><br>
  <a href="qs-92_project_builders.htm">Ant buildfiles as project builders</a><br>
  <a href="qs-94_run_pj.htm">Executing project builders</a><br>
  <a href="qs-96_non_ant_pjs.htm">Non-Ant project builders</a><br>
  <a href="qs-97_standalone_ets.htm">Stand-alone external tools</a>
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